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Special guest blog by IBM's Ravi Shankar

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Incheon Airport to build healthcare logistics hub

Incheon Airport has announced plans to build a 16,600sqm healthcare logistics centre in its free trade zone by 2012. The Korean airport has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with...

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Bid to make Robin Hood Airport a special economic zone

Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport could be in line for an economic winfall if a submission for it to be transformed into a UK Enterprise Zone is successful.

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Dubai passenger numbers to double
by 2020

Dubai International Airport will become the busiest airport in the world by 2015 as passenger numbers are expected to reach nearly 100 million over the next 10 years.

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Missouri senators pass aerotropolis bill

Missouri senators have passed a $480 million package of incentives today (April 28) in a move that could convince China Southern Airlines to...

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Special report

Land of opportunity

Are airports making maximum use of their available land? Matthew Taylor considers how an airport can leverage its commercial real estate.

Global economic challenges and changing airline industry dynamics are intensifying financial pressure on the world's airports. One effective source of relief leverages one of the airport's most visible assets - land.

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Airport Cities 2011 interview videos

Robert Ficano
Wayne County Executive
Wayne County Michigan

Chris LeTourner
President Chief Executive Officer
MXD

Richard Smith
Chairman & CEO
FedEx

Scott Brockman
COO
Memphis Airporty

Guest blog: IBM

How IT can help create 'smart' airport cities

By Ravi Shankar S N, Global Solution Leader Airports, IBM Corporation

Air travel can be a highly stressful experience for passengers, especially when they end up feeling like they are being processed in much the same way as bags or cargo.

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Featured website profile

Tancredo Neves International Airport

Great things were expected of Belo Horizonte's Tancredo Neves International Airport (TNIA), when it triumphantly opened in March 1984.

Originally planned to accommodate rapid passenger and cargo growth and provide a major stimulus to Brazil's third largest metropolitan area, the airport's original blueprint called for the construction of two long-range runways, four 300,00sqm expansive passenger terminals and associated cargo facilities.